Re: MAINTAINERS in svn -- have it or no commit for you

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 9/1/07, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="Olav Vitters">
>
> > I do understand this is heavy handed way of getting that information.
>
> I'd suggest the heavy-handedness is just mistimed -- it would be totally OK
> to announce that this would happen immediately *after* the release of 2.20,
> as then it would simply be a property of the next release cycle. Doing it
> now, during the final and arguably most crucial stages of the cycle (during
> which, confusion may have a serious impact on the quality of our release),
> is pretty risky.
>
> An infrastructure change such as this is not important enough to inflict at
> critical points of the release cycle, but it will be great to fix for the
> next.

I'm with Jeff and Vincent on this; I'm worried about the adverse
affect this could have on the release, given how close it is.  Can we
consider delaying it until after 2.20 is out?

Elijah